Hart High School - Hartian Yearbook (Hart, MI)

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 OUR CLASS r Class Colors—Red and White Class Flower—Red and white rosebuds Class Motto—The difficult we do today; The impossible takes a little longer. President Robert Jensen Vice-President Gene Robinson Secretary Jack Osten-Saeken Treasurer Dick West HONOR STUDENTS Standing: Lois Corliss, Jack Osten-Sacken, Delores Spierenberg, Patricia Wa-chter, Jerry Spencer. Maxine Robbins Sitting: Nancy Hanks, Betty Ellis, Wallace Jensen, Donna Ullrich Missing: Royce Griffin

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SALUTATORY PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND FRIENDS: On behalf of the graduating class of 1950, I welcome you to our commencement exercises. We sincerely want you to enjoy the evening with us. Throughout our high school career we have been waiting for this occasion. Some of us will be continuing higher education; others will be going into business and a few start new homes. Whatever field we enter we hope for success. Parents, we welcome you, who through our high school days have given encouragement, help, and financial aid to the end tha: you might see us graduate. While to some it has meant a great sacrifice, you have your reward tonight. Teachers, we welcome you who have guided and assisted us in our everyday problems. Although many pranks and jokes have at times annoyed you, always you have urged us on to higher goals. Now we realize that one of those goals has been reached. Friends, we welcome you, the real supporters of our education. Through school taxes and your interest in our class activities we have made this one goal in life. Again we wish to express our appreciation for your presence and assistance. We welcome you to the observance of this goal in our lives. Betty Jane Ellis VALEDICTORY Parents, Teachers, and Friends: It has been said by many graduating seniors before me that this occasion, our graduation, is a turning point in our lives, that it is an important milestone on our road to success. In a way that is true for tonight will be emblazoned on our memories and we wouldn’t trade it for any substitute. Yet tonight is merely a representative of twelve years of our lives. In those twelve years, with the aid of our parents and teachers and friends we have grown intellectually and socially. The spaciousness of our thoughts has increased to bring us closer to the realization of our part in lile. With every contact we have made, we have grown in some small respect to bring our selves .up to the standards set forth by civilization. The sound guidance that has been given enables us to go into this divided world with the aim of universal brotherhood. Although it may not be achieved in this generation or even in this civilization, it is a dream of every graduate in this class. F’or all our advancement, however, we are still like an unfinished portrait. We are a rough draft. We have learned the fundamentals, the basic formula for living and contributing to posterity. Now it is up to each of us individually to enlarge upon these fundamentals and to take our place among the men and women of the world. It is up to us whether or not in our finished form we will become learned and polished in the ways of living peacefully and happily. The time has arrived for our departure from the byways which lead to Hart High. As we leave we would like to leave this thought with the underclassmen. Success does not mean riches and remember the crowning glory of success is happiness. Wallace Jensen